A journey of Life through scent.

Siberie Perfumes – Samples

I am stoked to bring you a new (to me) perfume house – Siberie Perfumes! This company has been on my radar for a while, but I hadn’t yet taken the plunge into purchasing from this company due to … who knows why really. Probably something shiny caught my attention. However, the lovely owner was kind enough to send me some stuff to sample! These were not purchased by me. I cheated and had a sneak sniff at some of the bottles (yes! bottles!) I’ll be reviewing later this week. Let me just say, I’m even more excited!

You can see from the picture that these are not the “typical” 1ml sample vials you see most places. This is a larger 2ml vial with a smaller neck area but a long enough wand that you can reach all that precious liquid! It is a little harder to open than the 1ml’s or the larger necked 2ml’s.

In the vial this actually smells like it has vanilla in it – so much so I had to triple check the notes. I think it might be a combo of the rain and the wildflower honey. On my skin this is actually creamy in a way – more like raw honey. The jasmine is heady and fragrant as is that golden honeysuckle. The rain is adding a touch of a dewy-like freshness to the blend.

The throw on this is not overpowering, but I imagine were I to walk outside in this 100 degree + 90% humidity we have it would become too much. I think this would be the perfect pre-spring scent – when you can’t wait for spring to come and you just want that golden sunshine to reflect off of anything other than the snow-turned-grey. (You can take the girl out of Winter, but you can’t take the Winter out of the girl … or something like that.)

I can’t lie … I’m kind of in love with this scent. There’s something about it that just makes me think of new beginnings and fresh starts and sometimes you need to inhale the thought to solidify it in your mind. (Laugh now, but you’ll be thinking about it seriously later.)

After a while I still get a good sweet and golden throw from this, but the scent isn’t prominent on my skin. That’s kind of neat! Sometimes I don’t really want to go around constantly lifting my wrist to my nose. I’ve gotten more than my fair share of odd looks from doing that.

In the vial this is super patchouli and chocolate. Lots of chocolate. Melty, gooey, milk chocolate that never quite comes off your hands no matter how much you lick them. I mean wash them. I would never lick my hands free of chocolate. Yeah, never.

The patchouli is gritty and very earthy, as the notes mention. It takes a while, but the chocolate is starting to smooth out into a memory instead of covering you. After about 010 minutes I can finally smell the amber, warm and golden under the patchouli and bits of chocolate still clinging to my skin.

You wouldn’t know it, but this is not actually a blend I like. Not because it’s not good, but because it’s just not my jam. I don’t enjoy wearing chocolate I can’t eat.

However, if you enjoy patchouli, chocolate, and amber – definitely give this a try! It has a good throw, not overwhelming but I get more chocolate scent from the throw than from what’s on my skin.

So while the first half hour isn’t really my thing, it’s now kind of really intriguing. It’s more woody than it was at first and the chocolate is almost all gone. There’s something verging on the edge of being spicy. Another decent throw as well.

I had to make an emergency run to the store (we needed more supplies to make carnitas, obviously) and I put this on just before leaving about an hour ago.

In the beginning this was all tea and somewhat sharp mint with the lovely orchid and freesia but none of that apple or pear. After about 5 of so minutes (long enough in the heat to convince my daughter she should climb into her seat and then further convince her its in her best interest to buckle up and stay buckled) the apple came out. I’m not sure if the pear was so entwined in the apple, or if I missed it.

For a while this was wafting up nicely, juicy and sweet, softly floral with just a hint of greenness from the tea and mint … and then it disappeared. I get a faint memory of pear when I sniff the spot, but other than that it’s just gone.

Now it could’ve had something to do with it being crazy hot and humid out, but that’s what it is here and I need my scents to last through those conditions sometimes. Maybe I’ll set it back and try it when it’s cooler – late fall or early spring.

In the vial this is vanilla and violets – soft and fluttering and sweet. On my skin the flowers bloom and there is a creaminess to the whole blend.

Admittedly, this was nearly overwhelming for about … 2 minutes. After that, it really morphed and became an almost sultry scent. It is very alluring. The labdanum is fog-like, lending a hazy blanket over everything. The myrrh and sandalwood with that touch of rum is very grounding.

Nearly 20 minutes later most of the florals are more in the distance, though they waft through every now and then, and I am left with a sweet, woody, and gossamer scent. It’s dark, not like a white fluffy scent, but more like incense smoke, dark and twisting.

There’s not too much throw on this, but I do get lovely wafts as I move my arm around